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J Neurophysiol 81: 2464-2471, 1999;
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The Journal of Neurophysiology Vol. 81 No. 5 May 1999, pp. 2464-2471
Copyright ©1999 by the American Physiological Society

Physiological Properties of GABAA Receptors From Acutely Dissociated Rat Dentate Granule Cells

Jaideep Kapur,1 Kevin F. Haas,1 and Robert L. Macdonald1,2

 1Department of Neurology; and  2Department of Physiology, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104-1687

Kapur, Jaideep, Kevin F. Haas, and Robert L. Macdonald. Physiological Properties of GABAA Receptors From Acutely Dissociated Rat Dentate Granule Cells. J. Neurophysiol. 81: 2464-2471, 1999.Physiological properties of GABAA receptors from acutely dissociated rat dentate granule cells. Study of fast, GABAA receptor-mediated, inhibitory postsynaptic currents (IPSCs) in hippocampal dentate granule cells has suggested that properties of GABAA receptors influence the amplitude and time course of the IPSCs. This study describes the physiological properties of GABAA receptors present on hippocampal dentate granule cells acutely isolated from 18- to 35-day-old rats. Rapid application of 1 mM GABA to outside-out macropatches excised from granule cells produced GABAA receptor currents with rapid rise time and biexponential decay of current after removal of GABA. After activation, granule cell GABAA receptor currents desensitized incompletely. During a 400-ms application of 1 mM GABA, peak current only desensitized ~40%. In symmetrical chloride solutions there was no outward rectification of whole cell current. Activation rates and peak currents elicited by rapid application of GABA to macropatches were also similar at positive and negative holding potentials. However, deactivation of GABAA receptor currents was slower at positive holding potentials. When whole cell currents were recorded without ATP in the pipette, current run-down was not apparent for 30 min in 50% of neurons, but run-down appeared to start soon after access was established in the remaining neurons. When 2 mM ATP was included in the recording pipette no run-down was apparent in 30 min of recording. The efficacy and potency of GABA were lower in cells recorded with no ATP in the pipette and during run-down compared with those recorded with 2 mM ATP and no run-down.




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